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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The Ethiopia Football Federation has
sacked head coach Sewnet Bishaw after a disastrous performance at the recent
African Nations Championship in South Africa. Ethiopia lost all three of their
group games at the tournament for locally-based players and failed to score a
single goal. The EFF president Junedin Basha told
BBC Sport that the national team's recent results do not match the nation's
current image. "Sewnet is a hero for our
football; he brought us back to the international scene, we recognise his
success in the last two years but things must continue to grow," he said.
"They don't need to stay stuck somewhere." Bishaw led Ethiopia to a first
Africa Cup of Nations in 31 years when they qualified for the finals in South
Africa last year. Under his guidance the team also did
well in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers as they reached the play-offs, losing 4-1
on aggregate to Nigeria for a place in Brazil. But results in recent months
have cost Bishaw his job. "We lost both of the World Cup
play-off mathces, we didn't do well at the regional Cecafa Cup and the CHAN
results were less of our expectations, they don't fit a nation of 90 million
people, " Basha added. The EFF are yet to name a
replacement for Bishaw but there is a chance they could look at hiring a
foreign coach for the Walya Antelopes. "We'll be looking for a good
coach that can push us up to the next level and that could mean a foreign coach
taking the post but local coaches are also being considered - what we need is
some-one who can improve us," Basha insisted.Source ( BBC)